Overview

He is Clinical Professor of Marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses including Marketing Strategy and Biomedical Marketing. He is also co-academic director of the Kellogg on Branding executive education program.

Tim has received numerous awards for teaching excellence. In 2018, he received the Top Professor Award from Germany’s Kellogg-WHU Executive MBA Program. He won the Lawrence G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, the top teaching award at Kellogg, in 2013 and 2006, making him one of just four people in the award’s more than forty year history to have won it twice. He also received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award, two Kellogg Faculty Impact Awards and the Kellogg Executive MBA Program’s Top Professor Award four times. Poets & Quants included him on its list “Favorite MBA Professors of 2016.”

Over the years, he has written four books. His latest is How to Wash a Chicken – Mastering the Business Presentation (Page Two, 2018). He also wrote Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Expert Marketer Magazine named Defending Your Brand the 2013 Marketing Book of the Year. Tim wrote Breakthrough Marketing Plans (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 and 2008) and was co-editor of Kellogg on Branding (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).

Tim manages Building Strong Brands, a blog on brand strategy. Inc. included the blog on its list of “Six Blogs That Can Teach You More Than an MBA.”

He has published more than a dozen Kellogg case studies including Crestor, MedImmune: FluMist Introduction and Genzyme: the Synvisc-One Investment Decision. He has authored more than two dozen articles on marketing topics.

Tim is an expert on Super Bowl advertising. He created the Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review in 2005 and has led the event ever since. Over the past ten years, the program has generated more than five billion media impressions.

He has served as a judge for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s WOMMY Awards, the Native Creatives Awards and the EthicMark Awards.

In addition to teaching at Kellogg, Tim works with major corporations around the world on strategy and branding issues. His recent clients include Pfizer, PepsiCo, Eli Lilly and AbbVie. He is managing director of Class 5 Consulting, a marketing strategy firm.

Tim is frequently cited by the media. He has been quoted in publications including Business Week, TheFinancial Times, TheWall Street Journal and TheNew York Times. He has appeared on all of the major television networks.

He serves on the board of the Alliance Française de Chicago and completed two terms on the board of the Lycée Français, Chicago’s French-International School.

Tim began his career at the consulting firm Booz Allen and Hamilton, where he worked on strategy projects. He joined the marketing team at Kraft Foods in 1991. During his almost 11 years at Kraft, he led brands including Miracle Whip, Taco Bell, Parkay and DiGiorno. He was responsible for the launch of more than two dozen new products.

He received his BA from Yale and his MBA from Harvard.

Tim lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.

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Research interests include branding, marketing strategy and marketing in the biomedical industry.

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Education

MBA, 1991, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration

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Executive Education

Executive Development Program

For top-performing, high-potential middle and senior managers, this intensive, collaborative and empowering executive development program delivers the knowledge, tools and frameworks required to succeed and lead with confidence in a general management role.

Kellogg on Branding

Learn from the people who wrote the book on branding how to build and strengthen the power of your brand. Kellogg’s latest thinking combined with hands-on experience will equip you to boost customer loyalty, heighten competitive advantage and increase profitability.

Strategic Marketing Communications in the Digital Age

Explore the power of an integrated marketing communications strategy from fundamental planning to tactical execution utilizing the most current thinking about media channels, customer engagement and measurement. The frameworks and examples provided are applicable to developing both B2C and B2B marketing communications strategies.

The PHYSICIAN CEO™ Program

Executive MBA Courses

Strategic Marketing Decisions (MKTGX-468-0) The basic concepts of marketing are not complicated. It is easy to understand the importance of segmentation and customer research. Few people have gotten confused by the 4 Ps and almost everyone can remember the 3 Cs. Finance concepts are difficult but marketing concepts? Not so much.
The challenge in marketing is applying the concepts. Every situation is different so leaders have to consider the best way to approach it. Making strategic marketing decisions isn’t easy; you have incomplete information, not enough resources, smart and driven competitors and changing conditions. You also have to work with a team of people to get agreement and alignment.
Understanding the core marketing concepts is not sufficient; marketing leaders have to be able to apply the concepts in different and often challenging situations.
The Strategic Marketing Decisions course is designed to help you make smart and strategic choices.

Marketing Strategy (MKTGX-466-0) The goal of this course is to enhance your knowledge of marketing strategy. Specifically, this course aims to introduce the key elements of marketing strategy, provide a sound framework for problem analysis and action planning, and sharpen your leadership, analytical, and communication skills.

Full-Time / Evening & Weekend MBA Courses

Marketing Strategy (MKTG-466-0) This course presents an integrative, dynamic view of competitive brand strategy. It focuses on understanding, developing and evaluating brand strategies over the life of a product market. A framework for developing marketing strategies that yield a distinctive competitive advantage based on customer and competitor analysis will be presented and applied in various situations throughout the course. Topics include strategies for pioneering brands, strategies for late entry, growth strategies, strategies for mature and declining markets, and defensive marketing strategies. Material is presented using a mix of cases, lectures and a computer simulation game called MARKSTRAT.

Biomedical Marketing (HCAK-470-0)

**This course was formerly known as HEMA-914-0 and HEMA-470-0**

The biomedical industry is beginning to appreciate that success in this industry comes from a combination of great science and strong marketing. Marketing in the biomedical industry poses unique challenges: marketers have to deal with a complex regulatory, competitive, scientific and ethical environment, while building strong businesses and brands. This course studies how core marketing concepts play out in the biomedical industry, through a combination of case studies, guest speakers, student projects and discussions. It is ideal for students who plan to go into the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, and for students with an interest in this fast moving arena.